This article pays tribute to Anatoly Pavlovich Frumkin on the 120th anniversary of his birthday. It describes his life, the creative scientific path of a prominent researcher, military urological surgeon, founder of a urological school and the first in the Soviet Union Head of the Department of Urology at the S.P. Botkin hospital, author of fundamental studies in the field of military urology, endoscopic and radiologic diagnostics in urology, the founder of the first in the Soviet Union Department of Pediatric Urology at the St. Vladimir Children’s Hospital.

Keywords: medical history, operative urology, military-extreme medicine, pediatric urology-andrology